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>How come you guys with them don't have better numbers at the track?
because its a fwd car, because most of us have never even been to a track, because when you are flooring it, its very easy to break the tires loose, and that ends up it not so great track times.
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>The thing is though, it gets talked up like it will outrun everything on the road.
no, it will not out run everything on the road, but it is faster then most cars in its class (fwd 4cy sporty econo like the celica, civic, rsx-s,etc)
after you swa, all the turbo cars and v8s are your enemy and will probably be faster or a really close race depending on their weight. the secret to a 3sgte swaped celica, is that its a light fwd car, so from a roll, its pretty damn fast. if you want a really good idea of what its like, just think of it as a 13sec car at 15psi, even if most people cant record that time slip due to track issues, it will still feel and act like that when you are driving on the street.
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>I want to see a 3sgte Celica run low 12s. And still de driven daily.
well, then build it! its totally possible and easy to do. all you need is a turbo upgrade and some fuel mods. im pretty sure that celica3sgte posted a video of his swaped car runing 12s before.
the whole magic to this motor is that, all these track times and dyno numbers you see posted are from pretty much bone stock swaps (exhaust, IC, MBC). once you have that, you are opened up to a whole world of possible upgrades you can do. there are people on mr2oc making 400hp on unopend motors! as far as turbo 4cyl motors, the 3sgte is basically on the same level as the 4g63 (evo motor) or the sr20. thats why it gets the hype it does, because of the pontential and that its very easy to modify and make more power from it.